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...employees of PeopleSoft, based in Pleasanton, Calif., were not amused. CEO Craig Conway, 48, himself a former Ellison protege, had just successfully negotiated a $1.7 billion merger deal with another rival, Denver-based J.D. Edwards. That was supposed to be the big story in the software business. Then Conway's customers started talking about the Oracle offer and whether they should postpone purchases until things settled down. Even after the PeopleSoft board concluded there would be antitrust problems with an Oracle takeover, Ellison was still pressing the deal on PeopleSoft shareholders. By the end of the week, PeopleSoft...
...dramatic and unexpected shift in power in the U.S. Senate is as close to divine intervention as you can get." NILS J. MIKKELSEN Pleasanton, Calif...
...silver Honda Civic leaves Kevin Greenlee's house and tools across Pleasanton, a fast-growing town 30 miles east of San Francisco. We're headed for the local Bay Area Rapid Transit station, where Greenlee, 41, an investments manager, will park the car for the day. It will not be waiting for him when he returns. While he rides a San Francisco-bound commuter train, someone else will get in the car and drive away. After that, five more people will get behind the wheel and put close to 100 miles on the Honda. Greenlee doesn't mind. "I just...
...Greenlee arrives at the station, leaves the key to the Honda in a security box and walks to his train. Soon Annemarie Meike and Bill Glassley, a married couple who live in Oakland and commute to Pleasanton, pick up the key and get into the Honda to drive to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where both are scientists. In the past they drove the entire way from home to their jobs--60 miles round-trip--because the bus service connecting BART to the lab was slow and unreliable. Now they take BART to Pleasanton and, for $60 a month...
...party I wanted to get the information. The Internet is like a big open playground, and the real professional hacker can get into just about anything. Never send anything over the Net that is highly sensitive. Never! The public at large may have access to it. RAY OLIVA Pleasanton, California...